(a) Sedition is advocating, or with knowledge of its contents knowingly publishing or
distributing any document which advocates, or, with knowledge of its purpose, knowingly
becoming a member of any organization which advocates the overthrow or reformation of the
existing form of government of this state by violence or unlawful means.

(1) Swearing, testifying, affirming, declaring or subscribing to any material fact upon any
oath or affirmation legally administered in any cause, matter or proceeding before any court,
tribunal, public body, notary public or other officer authorized to administer oaths;

(2) subscribing as true and correct under penalty of perjury any material matter in any
declaration, verification, certificate or statement as permitted by K.S.A. 53-601, and amendments
thereto; or

(3) subscribing as true and correct under penalty of perjury any statement as required by
K.S.A. 75-5743, and amendments thereto.

(1) Falsely reporting to a law enforcement officer. law enforcement agency or state
investigative agency that a crime has been committed or any information concerning a crime or
suspected crime, knowing that such information is false and intending that the officer or agency
shall act in reliance upon such information; or

(2) falsely reporting to a law enforcement officer, law enforcement agency or state
investigative agency any information concerning the death, disappearance or potential death or
disappearance of a child under the age of 13, knowing that such information is false and
intending that the officer or agency shall act in reliance upon such information; or falsely
reporting:

(A) That a particular person has committed a crime, knowing that such information is
false and intending that the officer or agency shall act in reliance upon such information; or

(B) any information, knowing that such information is false and intending to influence,
impede or obstruct such officer’s or agency’s duty;

(2) concealing, destroying or materially altering evidence with the intent to prevent or
hinder the apprehension or prosecution of any person; or

(3) knowingly obstructing, resisting or opposing any person authorized by law to serve
process in the service or execution or in the attempt to serve or execute any writ, warrant, process
or order of a court, or in the discharge of any official duty.

(b) (1) Interference with law enforcement as defined in subsection (a)(1) or (a)(2) is a
class A nonperson misdemeanor, except as provided in subsection (b)(2).

(2) Interference with law enforcement as defined in:

(2) Interference with law enforcement as defined in:

(A) Subsection (a)(1)(A) or (a)(2) is a severity level 8, nonperson felony in the case of a
felony; and

(B) subsection (a)(1)(B) is a severity level 9, nonperson felony in the case of a felony.

(3) Interference with law enforcement as defined in subsection

(a)(3) is a:

(A) Severity level 9, nonperson felony in the case of a felony, or resulting from parole or
any authorized disposition for a felony; and

(B) class A nonperson misdemeanor in the case of a misdemeanor, or resulting from any
authorized disposition for a misdemeanor, or a civil case.

(1) Communicating with any judicial officer in relation to any matter which is or may be
brought before such judge, magistrate, master or juror with intent improperly to influence such
officer;

(2) committing any of the following acts, with intent to influence, impede or obstruct the
finding, decision, ruling, order, judgment or decree of such judicial officer or prosecutor on any
matter then pending before the officer or prosecutor:

(A) Communicating in any manner a threat of violence to any judicial officer or any
prosecutor;

(B) harassing a judicial officer or a prosecutor by repeated vituperative communication;
or

(C) picketing, parading or demonstrating near such officer’s or prosecutor’s residence or
place of abode;

(3) picketing, parading or demonstrating in or near a building housing a judicial officer
or a prosecutor with intent to impede or obstruct the finding, decision, ruling, order, judgment or
decree of such judicial officer or prosecutor on any matter then pending before the officer or
prosecutor;

(4) knowingly accepting or agreeing to accept anything of value as consideration for a
promise:

(A) Not to initiate or aid in the prosecution of a person who has committed a crime; or

(B) to conceal or destroy evidence of a crime;

(5) knowingly or intentionally in any criminal proceeding or investigation:

(A) Inducing a witness or informant to withhold or unreasonably delay in producing any
testimony, information, document or thing;

(B) withholding or unreasonably delaying in producing any testimony, information,
document or thing after a court orders the production of such testimony, information, document
or thing;

(C) altering, damaging, removing or destroying any record, document or thing, with the
intent to prevent it from being produced or used as evidence; or

(D) making, presenting or using a false record, document or thing with the intent that the
record, document or thing, material to such criminal proceeding or investigation, appear in
evidence to mislead a justice, judge, magistrate, master or law enforcement officer; or

(6) when performed by a person summoned or sworn as a juror in any case:

(A) Intentionally soliciting, accepting or agreeing to accept from another any benefit as
consideration to wrongfully give a verdict for or against any party in any proceeding,
civil or criminal;

(B) intentionally promising or agreeing to wrongfully give a verdict for or against any
party in any proceeding, civil or criminal; or

(C) knowingly receiving any evidence or information from anyone in relation to any
matter or cause for the trial of which such juror has been or will be sworn, without the
authority of the court or officer before whom such juror has been summoned, and without
immediately disclosing the same to such court or officer.

(b) Interference with the judicial process as defined in:

(1) Subsection (a)(1) is a severity level 9, nonperson felony;

(2) subsection (a)(2) and (a)(3) is a class A nonperson misdemeanor;

(3) subsection (a)(4) is a:

(A) Severity level 8, nonperson felony if the crime is a felony; or

(B) class A nonperson misdemeanor if the crime is a misdemeanor;

(4) subsection (a)(5) is a:

(A) Severity level 8, nonperson felony if the matter or case involves a felony; or

(B) class A nonperson misdemeanor if the matter or case involves a misdemeanor;

(1) Distributing to another any document which simulates or purports to be, or is
designed to cause others to believe it to be, a summons, petition, complaint or other legal
process, with the intent to mislead the recipient and cause the recipient to take action in reliance
thereon; or

(2) printing or distributing any such document, knowing that it shall be so used.

(b) Simulating legal process is a class A nonperson misdemeanor.

(c) This section shall not apply to the printing or distribution of blank forms of legal
documents intended for actual use in judicial proceedings.

(a) "Civil injury or loss" means any injury or loss for which a civil remedy is provided
under the laws of this state, any other state or the United States;

(b) "victim" means any individual:

(1)Against whom any crime under the laws of this state, any other state or the
United States is being, has been or is attempted to be committed; or

(2)who suffers a civil injury or loss; and

(c) "witness" means any individual:

(1)Who has knowledge of the existence or nonexistence of facts relating to
any civil or criminal trial, proceeding or inquiry authorized by law;

(2)whose declaration under oath is received or has been received as evidence
for any purpose;

(3)who has reported any crime or any civil injury or loss to any law
enforcement officer, prosecutor, probation officer, parole officer,
correctional officer, community correctional services officer or judicial
officer;

(4)who has been served with a subpoena issued under the authority of a
municipal court or any court or agency of this state, any other state or the
United States; or

(5)who is believed by the offender to be an individual described in this
subsection.

(a) Intimidation of a witness or victim is preventing or dissuading, or attempting to
prevent or dissuade, with an intent to vex, annoy, harm or injure in any way another person or an
intent to thwart or interfere in any manner with the orderly administration of justice:

(1) Any witness or victim from attending or giving testimony at any civil or criminal
trial, proceeding or inquiry authorized by law; or

(2) any witness, victim or person acting on behalf of a victim from:

(A)Making any report of the victimization of a victim to any law enforcement
officer, prosecutor, probation officer, parole officer, correctional officer,
community correctional services officer or judicial officer the secretary of
the department of social and rehabilitation services or any agent or
representative of the secretary, or any person required to make a report
pursuant to K.S.A. 2011 Supp. 38-2223, and amendments thereto;

(B)causing a complaint, indictment or information to be sought and
prosecuted, or causing a violation of probation, parole or assignment a
community correctional services program to be reported and prosecuted,
and assisting in its prosecution;

(C)causing a civil action to be filed and prosecuted and assisting in its
prosecution; or

(D)arresting or causing or seeking the arrest of any person in connection with
the victimization of a victim.

(b) Aggravated intimidation of a witness or victim is intimidation of a witness or victim,
as defined in subsection (a), when the:

(1)Act is accompanied by an expressed or implied threat of force or violence
against a witness, victim or other person or the property of any witness,
victim or other person;

(2)act is in furtherance of a conspiracy;

(3)the act is committed by a person who has been previously convicted of
corruptly influencing a witness or has been convicted of a violation of this
section or any federal or other state’s statute which, if the act prosecuted
was committed in this state, would be a violation of this section;

(4)witness or victim is under 18 years of age; or

(5)act is committed for pecuniary gain or for any other consideration by a
person acting upon the request of another person.

(c) (1) Intimidation of a witness or victim is a class B person misdemeanor.

(2) Aggravated intimidation of a witness or victim is a severity level 6, person felony.

(a) In its discretion and upon good cause, which may include, but is not limited to, the
declaration of a party’s attorney, to believe that intimidation or dissuasion of any victim or
witness has occurred or is reasonably likely to occur, any court having jurisdiction over any civil
or criminal matter may issue any reasonable order necessary to remedy or prevent the
intimidation or dissuasion, including, but not limited to, an order that:

(1) Any person before the court, including but not limited to a party, subpoenaed witness
or other person entering the courtroom of the court, not violate any provision of this section or
21-5909, and amendments thereto;

(2) any person described in this section maintain a prescribed geographic distance from
any specified witness or victim;

(3) any person described in this section have no communication whatsoever with any specified witness or victim, except through an attorney under such reasonable restrictions
as the court imposes;

(4) calls for a hearing to determine if an order described in subsection (a)(1), (a)(2) or
(a)(3) should be issued; or

(5) a particular law enforcement agency within the jurisdiction of the court provide
protection for a victim or witness.

(b) Actions by a law enforcement agency pursuant to an order issued under subsection
(a)(5) shall be considered to be police protection within the exemption from liability under the
Kansas tort claims act for damages resulting from the failure to provide, or the method of
providing, police protection.

(c) Violation of an order entered pursuant to subsection (a) may be punished in any of the
following ways:

(1) In the manner provided by 21-5909, and amendments thereto, when applicable;

(2) as a contempt of the court making the order. No finding of contempt shall be a bar to
prosecution for a violation of 21-5909, and amendments thereto, but:

(A)Any person held in contempt shall be entitled to have any punishment
imposed for contempt to be credited against any sentence imposed upon
conviction of a violation of 21-5909, and amendments thereto; and

(B)any conviction or acquittal of a violation of subsection (a) or 21-5909, and
amendments thereto, shall be a bar to subsequent punishment for contempt
arising out of the same act; or

(3) by revocation of any form of pretrial release of a criminal defendant or by the
forfeiture of bail and the issuance of a bench warrant for the defendant’s arrest or remanding the
defendant into custody. After a hearing and upon a showing by clear and convincing evidence,
the court, in its sound discretion, may order the revocation whether the violation was committed
by the defendant personally or in any way caused or encouraged it to be committed.

(d) (1) Any pretrial release of any criminal defendant, whether on bail or under another
form of recognizance, shall be considered as a matter of law to include a condition that the
defendant will not commit, cause to be committed or knowingly permit to be committed, on the
defendant’s behalf, any violation of this section or section 134, and amendments thereto.
Knowing violation of that condition is subject to the sanction provided by subsection (c)(3)
whether or not the defendant was the subject of an order under subjection (a).

(2) Any receipt for any bail or bond given by any court, or by any surety or bondsman
and any written promise to appear on one’s own recognizance shall contain notice of the
provisions of subsection (d)(1) in a conspicuous location.

(3) Any pretrial release of any criminal defendant whether on bail or under another form
of recognizance who requests and is entitled to the assistance of counsel under the provisions of
K.S.A. 22-4503, and amendments thereto, shall be considered as a matter of law to include a
condition that the defendant shall pay the application fee prescribed by K.S.A. 22-4529, and
amendments thereto, and the failure to pay such fee shall constitute a violation of this section.
Knowing violation of such condition is subject to the sanction provided by subsection (c)(3)
whether or not the defendant was the subject of an order under subsection (a).

(2) charge adjudication or arrest as a juvenile offender where the act, if committed by an
adult, would constitute a misdemeanor; or

(3) commitment to the state security hospital as provided in K.S.A. 22-3428, and
amendments thereto, based on a finding that the person committed an act constituting a
misdemeanor or by a person 18 years of age or over who is being held in custody on a
adjudication of a misdemeanor.

(b) Aggravated escape from custody is:

(1) Escaping while held in custody:

(A) Upon a charge conviction or arrest for of a felony;

(B) upon a charge adjudication as or arrest as a juvenile offender where the act, if
committed by an adult, would constitute a felony;

(C) prior to or upon a finding of probable cause for evaluation as a sexually violent
predator as provided in K.S.A. 59-29a05, and amendments thereto;

(D) upon commitment to a treatment facility as a sexually violent predator as provided in
K.S.A. 59-29a01 et seq., and amendments thereto;

(E) upon a commitment to the state security hospital as provided in K.S.A. 22-3428, and
amendments thereto, based on a finding that the person committed an act constituting a felony;

(F) by a person 18 years of age or over who is being held on an adjudication of a felony;
or

(G) upon incarceration at a state correctional institution while in the custody of the
secretary of corrections.

(2) Escaping effected or facilitated by the use of violence or the threat of violence against
any person while held in custody:

(A) On a charge or conviction of any crime;

(B) on a charge or adjudication as a juvenile offender where the act, if committed by an
adult, would constitute a felony;

(C) prior to or upon a finding of probable cause for evaluation as a sexually violent
predator as provided in K.S.A. 59-29a05, and amendments thereto;

(D) upon commitment to a treatment facility as a sexually violent predator as provided in
K.S.A. 59-29a01 et seq., and amendments thereto;

(E) upon a commitment to the state security hospital as provided in K.S.A. 22-3428, and
amendments thereto, based on a finding that the person committed an act constituting any crime;

(F) by a person 18 years of age or over who is being held on a charge or adjudication of a
misdemeanor of felony; or

(G) upon incarceration at a state correctional institution while in the custody of the
secretary of corrections.

(d) As used in this section and K.S.A. 21-5912, and amendments thereto:

(1) "Custody’’ means arrest; detention in a facility for holding persons charged with or
convicted of crimes or charged or adjudicated as a juvenile offender; detention for extradition or
deportation; detention in a hospital or other facility pursuant to court order, imposed as a specific
condition of probation or parole or imposed as a specific condition of assignment to a community
correctional services program; commitment to the state security hospital as provided in K.S.A.
22-3428, and amendments thereto; or any other detention for law enforcement purposes.
"Custody" does not include general supervision of a person on probation or parole or constraint
incidental to release on bail;

(2) "escape" means departure from custody without lawful authority or failure to return to
custody following temporary leave lawfully granted pursuant to express authorization of law or
order of a court;

(3) "juvenile offender" means the same as in K.S.A. 2010 Supp. 38-2302, and
amendments thereto; and

(4) "state correctional institution" means the same as in K.S.A. 75-5202, and amendments
thereto.

(e) As used in this section, the term "charge" shall not require that the offender was held
on a written charge contained in a complaint, information or indictment, if such offender was
arrested prior to such of- fender’s escape from custody.

(2) severity level 4, nonperson felony if such aiding escape is by an employee or
volunteer of the department of corrections, or the employee or volunteer of a contractor who is
under contract to provide services to the department of corrections.

(c) As used in this section ‘‘custody’’ includes custody on a charge or conviction of
crime, on a charge or adjudication of a misdemeanor or felony, or on a commitment to the state
security hospital as provided in K.S.A. 22-3428, and amendments thereto, based on a finding that
the person committed an act constituting any crime.

(a) Aiding a felon is knowingly harboring, concealing or aiding any person who has
committed a felony under the laws of this state other than a violation of K.S.A. 22-4903, and
amendments thereto,or another state or the United States with intent that such person shall avoid
or escape from arrest, trial, conviction or punishment for such felony.

Aiding a felon is a severity level 8, nonperson felony.

(b) Aiding a person charged with a felony is knowingly harboring, concealing or aiding a
person who has been charged with a felony under the laws of this state other than a violation of
K.S.A. 22-4903, and amendments thereto,or another state or the United States with intent that
such person shall avoid or escape from arrest, trial, conviction or punishment for such felony.

Aiding a person charged with a felony is a severity level 8, nonperson felony.

(c) Aiding a person who has been convicted of or who has been charged with committing
a misdemeanor under the laws of Kansas or another state is knowingly concealing or aiding such
person with intent that such person shall avoid or escape from arrest, trial, conviction or
punishment for such misdemeanor.

Aiding a person convicted of or charged with committing a misdemeanor is a class C
misdemeanor.

(d) Aiding a person required to register under the Kansas offender registration act, K.S.A.
22-4901 et seq., and amendments thereto, is knowingly harboring, concealing or aiding any
person who is required to register under the act and who is not in compliance with the
requirements of the act with intent that such person shall avoid or escape from registration, arrest,
trial, conviction, punishment or any criminal charges arising from the person’s failure to comply
with the requirements of the act. Aiding a person required to register under the Kansas offender
registration act is a severity level 5, person felony.

(A) Firearms, ammunition, explosives or a controlled substance which is defined in
K.S.A. 2010 Supp. 21-36a01, and amendments thereto, except as provided in subsection (b)(3);

(B) defined as contraband by rules and regulations adopted by the secretary of
corrections, in a state correctional institution or facility by an employee of a state correctional
institution or facility, except as provided in subsection (b)(3);

(C) defined as contraband by rules and regulations adopted by the secretary of social and
rehabilitation services, in a care and treatment facility by an employee of a care and treatment
facility, except as provided in subsection (b)(3); or

(D) defined as contraband by rules and regulations adopted by the commissioner of the
juvenile justice authority, in a juvenile correctional facility by an employee of a juvenile
correctional facility, except as provided by subsection (b)(3); and

(3) severity level 4, nonperson felony if:

(A) Such items are firearms, ammunition or explosives, in a correctional institution by an
employee of a correctional institution or in a care and treatment facility by an employee of a care
and treatment facility; or

(B) a violation of (a)(5) or (a)(6) by an employee or volunteer of the department of
corrections, or the employee or volunteer of a contractor who is under contract to provide
services to the department of corrections.

(c) The provisions of subsection (b)(2)(A) shall not apply to the possession of a firearm or
ammunition by a person licensed under the personal and family protection act, K.S.A. 75-7c01 et
seq., and amendments thereto, in a parking lot open to the public if the firearm or ammunition is
carried on the person while in a vehicle or while securing the firearm or ammunition in the
vehicle, or stored out of plain view in a locked but unoccupied vehicle.

(2) care and treatment facility means the state security hospital provided for under K.S.A.
76-1305 et seq., and amendments thereto, and a facility operated by the department of social and
rehabilitation services for the purposes provided for under K.S.A. 59-29a02 et seq., and
amendments thereto; and

(3) lawful custody means the same as in K.S.A. 21-5912, and amendments thereto.

(a) Failure to appear is knowingly incurring a forfeiture of an appearance bond and failing
to surrender oneself within 30 days following the date of such forfeiture by one who is charged
with a misdemeanor and has been released on bond for appearance before any court of this state,
other than the municipal court of a city, for trial or other proceeding prior to conviction, or
knowingly incurring a forfeiture of an appearance bond and failing to surrender oneself within 30
days after such person’s conviction of a misdemeanor has become final by one who has been
released on an appearance bond by any court of this state.

(b) Aggravated failure to appear is knowingly incurring a forfeiture of an appearance
bond and failing to surrender oneself within 30 days following the date of such forfeiture by one
who is charged with a felony and has been released on bond for appearance before any court of
this state, or knowingly incurring a forfeiture of an appearance bond and failing to surrender
oneself within 30 days after oneself’s conviction of a felony has become final by one who has
been released on an appearance bond by any court of this state.

(d) The provisions of subsection (a) shall not apply to any person who forfeits a cash bond supplied pursuant to law upon an arrest for a traffic infraction or cigarette or
tobacco infraction.

(e) Any person who is released upon the person’s own recognizance, without surety, or
who fails to appear in response to a summons or traffic citation, shall be deemed a person
released on bond for appearance within the meaning of subsection (a).

(a) False signing of a petition is knowingly affixing any fictitious or unauthorized
signature to any petition, memorial or remonstrance, intended to be presented to the legislature,
or either house thereof, or to any agency or officer of the state of Kansas or any of its political
subdivisions.

(a) False impersonation is representing oneself to be a public officer, public employee or
a person licensed to practice or engage in any profession or vocation for which a license is
required by the laws of the state of Kansas, with knowledge that such representation is false.

(b) Aggravated false impersonation is falsely representing or impersonating another and
in such falsely assumed character:

(1) Becoming bail or security, or acknowledging any recognizance, or executing any
bond or other instrument as bail or security, for any party in any proceeding, civil or criminal,
before any court or officer authorized to take such bail or security;

(2) confessing any judgment;

(3) acknowledging the execution of any conveyance of property, or any other instrument
which by law may be recorded; or

(4) doing any other act in the course of a suit, proceeding or prosecution whereby the
person who is represented or impersonated may be made liable to the payment of any debt,
damages, costs or sum of money, or such person’s rights or interests may be in any manner
affected.

(1) A person less than 21 years of age who uses the identification document of another
person to acquire an alcoholic beverage, as defined in K.S.A. 8-1599, and amendments thereto;
or

(2) a person less than 18 years of age who uses the identification documents of another
person to acquire:

(A) Cigarettes or tobacco products, as defined in K.S.A. 79-3301, and amendments
thereto;

(B) a periodical, videotape or other communication medium that contains or depicts
nudity;

(C) admittance to a performance, live or film, that prohibits the attendance of the person
based on age; or

(D) an item that is prohibited by law for use or consumption by such person

(e) As used in this section, "identification document" means any card, certificate or
document or banking instrument including, but not limited to, credit or debit card, which
identifies or purports to identify the bearer of such document, whether or not intended for use as
identification, and includes, but is not limited to, documents purporting to be drivers’ licenses,
nondrivers’ identification cards, certified copies of birth, death, marriage and divorce certificates,
social security cards and employee identification cards.

(a) Tampering with public notice is knowingly and without lawful authority altering,
defacing, destroying, removing or concealing any public notice posted according to law, during
the time such notice is required or authorized to remain posted.

21-5922. Interference with the conduct of public business in public buildings.

(a) Interference with the conduct of public business in public buildings is:

(1) Conduct at or in any public building owned, operated or controlled by the state or any
of its political subdivisions so as to knowingly deny to any public official, public employee or
any invitee on such premises, the lawful rights of such official, employee or invitee to enter, to
use the facilities or to leave any such public building;

(2) knowingly impeding any public official or employee in the lawful performance of
duties or activities through the use of restraint, abduction, coercion or intimidation or by force
and violence or threat thereof;

(3) knowingly refusing or failing to leave any such public building upon being requested
to do so by the chief administrative officer, or such officer’s designee, charged with maintaining
order in such public building, if such person is committing, threatens to commit or incites others
to commit, any act which did or would if completed, disrupt, impair, interfere with or obstruct
the lawful missions, processes, procedures or functions being carried on in such public building;

(4) knowingly impeding, disrupting or hindering the normal proceedings of any meeting
or session conducted by any judicial or legislative body or official at any public building by any
act of intrusion into the chamber or other areas designated for the use of the body or official
conducting such meeting or session, or by any act designed to intimidate, coerce or hinder any
member of such body or any official engaged in the performance of duties at such meeting or
session; or

(5) knowingly impeding, disrupting or hindering, by any act of intrusion into the
chamber or other areas designed for the use of any executive body or official, the normal
proceedings of such body or official.

(b) Aggravated interference with the conduct of public business in public buildings, is
interference with the conduct of public business, as defined in subsection (a), when in possession
of any firearm or weapon as described in section 21-6301 or 21-6302, and amendments thereto.

(c) (1) Interference with the conduct of public business in public buildings is a class A
nonperson misdemeanor:

(2) Aggravated interference with the conduct of public business is a level 6, person
felony.

(a) Unlawful disclosure of authorized interception of wire, oral or electronic
communications is, with the intent to obstruct, impede or prevent such authorized interception,
communicating to any person or making public in any way, other than as provided by law:

(1) The existence of an application or order for such interception issued pursuant to
K.S.A. 22-2516, and amendments thereto; or

(1) A protection from abuse order issued pursuant to K.S.A. 60-3105, 60-3106 or
60-3107, and amendments thereto;

(2) a protective order issued by a court or tribunal of any state or Indian tribe that is
consistent with the provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 2265, and amendments thereto;

(3) a restraining order issued pursuant to K.S.A. 2011 Supp. 23-2707, 38-2243, 38-2244
and 38-2255, and amendments thereto, and K.S.A. 60- 1607, prior to its transfer;

(4) an order issued in this or any other state as a condition of pretrial release, diversion,
probation, suspended sentence, postrelease supervision or at any other time during the criminal
case that orders the person to refrain from having any direct or indirect contact with another
person;

(5) an order issued in this or any other state as a condition of release after conviction or
as a condition of a supersedeas bond pending disposition of an appeal, that orders the person to
refrain from having any direct or indirect contact with another person; or

(6) a protection from stalking order issued pursuant to K.S.A. 60-31a05 or 60-31a06, and
amendments thereto.

(b) (1) Violation of a protective order is a class A person misdemeanor, except as
provided in subsection (b)(2).

(2) Violation of an extended protective order as described in subsection (e)(2) of K.S.A.
60-3107, and amendments thereto, and subsection (d) of K.S.A. 60-31a06, and amendments
thereto, is a severity level 6, person felony.

(c) No protective order, as set forth in this section, shall be construed to prohibit an
attorney, or any person acting on such attorney’s behalf, who is representing the defendant in any
civil or criminal proceeding, from contacting the protected party for a legitimate purpose within
the scope of the civil or criminal proceeding. The attorney, or person acting on such attorney’s
behalf, shall be identified in any such contact.

(d) As used in this section, "order" includes any order issued by a municipal or district
court.

(c) "claim" means an electronic, electronic impulse, facsimile, magnetic, oral, telephonic
or written communication that is utilized to identify any goods, service, item, facility or
accommodation as reimbursable to the Kansas medicaid program, or its fiscal agents, or which
states income or expense and is or may be used to determine a rate of payment by the Kansas
medicaid program, or its fiscal agent;

(d) "fiscal agent" means any corporation, firm, individual, organization, partnership,
professional association or other legal entity which, through a contractual relationship with
the department of social and rehabilitation services and thereby, the state of Kansas, receives,
processes and pays claims under the Kansas medicaid program;

(f) "medicaid program" means the Kansas program of medical assistance for which
federal or state moneys, or any combination thereof, are expended as administered by the
department of social and rehabilitation services, or its fiscal agent, or any successor federal or
state, or both, health insurance program or waiver granted thereunder;

(g) "medically necessary" means for the purposes of 21-5925 through 21-5934, and
amendments thereto, only, any goods, service, item, facility, or accommodation, that a reasonable
and prudent provider under similar circumstances would believe is appropriate for diagnosing or
treating a recipient’s condition, illness or injury;

(h) "person" means any agency, association, corporation, firm, limited liability company,
limited liability partnership, natural person, organization, partnership or other legal entity, the
agents, employees, independent contractors, and subcontractors, thereof, and the legal successors
thereto, and any official, employee or agent of a state or federal agency having regulatory or
administrative authority over the medicaid program;

(i) "provider" means a person who has applied to participate in, who currently
participates in, who has previously participated in, who attempts or has attempted to participate
in the medicaid program, by providing or claiming to have provided goods, services, items,
facilities or accommodations;

(j) "recipient" means an individual, either real or fictitious, in whose behalf any person
claimed or received any payment or payments from the medicaid program, or its fiscal agent,
whether or not any such individual was eligible for benefits under the medicaid program;

(k) "records" mean all written documents and electronic or magnetic data, including, but
not limited to, medical records, X-rays, professional, financial or business records relating to the
treatment or care of any recipient; goods, services, items, facilities or accommodations provided
to any such recipient; rates paid for such goods, services, items, facilities or accommodations;
and goods, services, items, facilities, or accommodations provided to nonmedicaid recipients to
verify rates or amounts of goods, services, items, facilities or accommodations provided to
medicaid recipients, as well as any records that the medicaid program, or its fiscal agents require
providers to maintain;

(l) "sign" means to affix a signature, directly or indirectly, by means of handwriting,
typewriter, stamp, computer impulse or other means; and

(m) "statement or representation" means an electronic, electronic impulse, facsimile,
magnetic, oral, telephonic, or written communication that is utilized to identify any goods,
service, item, facility or accommodation as reimbursable to the medicaid program, or its fiscal
agent, or that states income or expense and is or may be used to determine a rate of payment by
the medicaid program, or its fiscal agent.

(a) Making a false claim, statement, or representation to the medicaid program is,
knowingly and with intent to defraud, engaging in a pattern of making, presenting, submitting,
offering or causing to be made, presented, submitted or offered:

(1) Any false or fraudulent claim for payment for any goods, service, item, facility,
accommodation for which payment may be made, in whole or in part, under the medicaid
program, whether or not the claim is allowed or allowable;

(2) any false or fraudulent statement or representation for use in determining payments
which may be made, in whole or in part, under the medicaid program, whether or not the claim is
allowed or allowable;

(3) any false or fraudulent report or filing which is or may be used in computing or
determining a rate of payment for any goods, service, item, facility or accommodation, for which
payment may be made, in whole or in part, under the medicaid program, whether or not the claim
is allowed or allowable;

(4) any false or fraudulent statement or representation made in connection with any report
or filing which is or may be used in computing or determining a rate of payment for any goods,
service, item, facility or accommodation for which payment may be made, in whole or in part,
under the medicaid program, whether or not the claim is allowed or allowable;

(5) any statement or representation for use by another in obtaining any goods, service,
item, facility or accommodation for which payment may be made, in whole or in part, under the
medicaid program, knowing the statement or representation to be false, in whole or in part, by
commission or omission, whether or not the claim is allowed or allowable;

(6) any claim for payment, for any goods, service, item, facility, or accommodation,
which is not medically necessary in accordance with professionally recognized parameters or as
otherwise required by law, for which payment may be made, in whole or in part, under the
medicaid program, whether or not the claim is allowed or allowable; or

(7) any wholly or partially false or fraudulent book, record, document, data or instrument,
which is required to be kept or which is kept as documentation for any goods, service, item,
facility or accommodation or of any cost or expense claimed for reimbursement for any goods,
service, item, facility or accommodation for which payment is, has been, or can be sought, in
whole or in part, under the medicaid program, whether or not the claim is allowed or allowable.

(8) Any wholly or partially false or fraudulent book, record, document, data or instrument
to any properly identified law enforcement officer, any properly identified employee or
authorized representative of the attorney general, or to any properly identified employee or agent
of the department of social and rehabilitation services, or its fiscal agent, in connection with any
audit or investigation involving any claim for payment or rate of payment for any goods, service,
item, facility or accommodation payable, in whole or in part, under the medicaid program.

(9) Any false or fraudulent statement or representation made, with the intent to influence
any acts or decision of any official, employee or agent of a state or federal agency having
regulatory or administrative authority over the Kansas medicaid program.

(b) (1) As defined by subsection (a)(1) through (a)(7), making a false claim, statement or
representation to the medicaid program where the aggregate amount of payments illegally
claimed is $25,000 or more is a severity level 7, nonperson felony.

(2) As defined by subsection (a)(1) through (a)(7), making a false claim, statement or
representation to the medicaid program where the aggregate amount of payments illegally
claimed is at least $1000 but less than $25,000 is a severity level 9, nonperson felony.

(3) As defined by subsection (a)(1) through (a)(7), making a false claim, statement or
representation to the medicaid program where the aggregate amount of payments illegally
claimed is less than $1000 is a class A misdemeanor.

(4) As defined by subsections (a)(8) and (a)(9), making a false claim, statement or
representation to the medicaid program is a severity level 9, nonperson felony.

(c) In determining what is medically necessary pursuant to subsection (a)(6) of this
section the attorney general may contract with or consult with qualified health care providers and
other qualified individuals to identify professionally recognized parameters for the diagnosis or
treatment of the recipient's condition, illness or injury.

(a) No recipient of medicaid benefits, family member of such recipient or provider of
medicaid services shall:

(1) Knowingly and intentionally solicit or receive any remuneration, including but not
limited to any kickback, bribe or rebate, directly or indirectly, overtly or covertly, in cash or in
kind:

(A) In return for referring or refraining from referring an individual to a person for the
furnishing or arranging for the furnishing of any goods, service, item, facility or accommodation
for which payment may be made, in whole or in part, under the medicaid program; or

(B) in return for purchasing, leasing, ordering or arranging for or recommending
purchasing, leasing or ordering any goods, service, item, facility or accommodation for which
payment may be made, in whole or in part, under the medicaid program.

(2) Knowingly and intentionally offer or pay any remuneration, including, but not limited
to, any kickback, bribe or rebate, directly or indirectly, overtly or covertly, in cash or in kind to
any person to induce such person:

(A) To refer or refrain from referring an individual to a person for the furnishing or
arranging for the furnishing of any goods, service, item, facility or accommodation for which
payment may be made, in whole or in part, under the medicaid program; or

(B) to purchase, lease, order, or arrange for or recommend purchasing, leasing, or
ordering any goods, service, item, facility or accommodation for which payment may be made, in
whole or in part, under the medicaid program.

(3) Knowingly divide or share any funds illegally obtained from the medicaid program.

(b) No medicaid recipient shall knowingly and intentionally trade a medicaid number for
money or other remuneration, sign for services that are not received by the medicaid recipient or
sell or exchange for value goods purchased or provided under the medicaid program.

(c) A violation of this section is a severity level 7, nonperson felony.

(d) This section shall not apply to a refund, discount, copayment, deductible, incentive or
other reduction obtained by a provider in the ordinary course of business, and appropriately
reflected in the claims or reports submitted to the medicaid program, or its fiscal agent, nor shall
it be construed to prohibit deductibles, copayments or any other cost or risk sharing arrangements
which are a part of any program operated by or pursuant to contracts with the medicaid program.

(a) Obstruction of a medicaid fraud investigation is knowingly and intentionally engaging
in one or more of the following during an investigation of any matter pursuant to K.S.A. 21-3844
et seq., and amendments thereto:

(1) Falsifying, concealing or covering up a material fact by any trick, misstatement,
scheme or device; or

(2) making or causing to be made any materially false writing or document knowing that
such writing or document contains any false, fictitious or fraudulent statement or entry.

(a) Failure to maintain adequate records is negligently failing to maintain such records as
are necessary to disclose fully the nature of the goods, services, items, facilities or
accommodations for which a claim was submitted or payment was received under the medicaid
program, or such records as are necessary to disclose fully all income and expenditures upon
which rates of payment were based under the medicaid program. Upon submitting a claim for or
upon receiving payment for goods, services, items, facilities or accommodations under the
medicaid program, a person shall maintain adequate records for five years after the date on which
payment was received, if payment was received, or for five years after the date on which the
claim was submitted, if the payment was not received.

(a) Destruction or concealment of records is intentionally destroying or concealing such
records as are necessary to disclose fully the nature of the goods, services, items, facilities or
accommodations for which a claim was submitted or payment was received under the medicaid
program, or such records as are necessary to disclose fully all income and expenditures upon
which rates of payment were based under the medicaid program. Upon submitting a claim for or
upon receiving payment for goods, services, items, facilities or accommodations under the
medicaid program, a person shall not destroy or conceal any records for five years after the date
on which payment was received, if payment was received, or for five years after the date on
which the claim was submitted, if the payment was not received.

(b) Destruction or concealment of records is a severity level 9, nonperson felony.

Offers of repayment or repayment occurring after the filing of criminal charges of
payments, goods, services, items, facilities or accommodations wrongfully obtained shall not
constitute a defense to or ground for dismissal of criminal charges brought pursuant to this act.

(a) Any person convicted of a violation of this act, may be liable, in addition to any other
criminal penalties provided by law, for all of the following:

(1) Payment of full restitution of the amount of the excess payments;

(2) payment of interest on the amount of any excess payments at the maximum legal rate
in effect on the date the payment was made to the person for the period from the date upon which
payment was made, to the date upon which repayment is made;

(3) payment of all reasonable expenses that have been necessarily incurred in the
enforcement of this act, including, but not limited to, the costs of the investigation, litigation and
attorney fees.

(b) All moneys recovered pursuant to subsection (a)(1) and (2), shall be remitted to the
state treasurer in accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 75-4215, and amendments thereto.
Upon receipt of each such remittance, the state treasurer shall deposit the entire amount

in the state treasury to the credit of the medicaidfraud reimbursement fund, which is hereby
established in the state treasury. Moneys in the medicaid fraud reimbursement fund shall be
divided and payments made from such fund to the federal government and affected state agencies
for the refund of moneys falsely obtained from the federal and state governments.

(c) All moneys recovered pursuant to subsection (a)(3) shall be remitted to the state
treasurer in accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 75-4215, and amendments thereto. Upon
receipt of each such remittance, the state treasurer shall deposit the entire amount in the state

treasury to the credit of the medicaid fraud prosecution revolving fund, which is hereby
established in the state treasury. Moneys in the medicaid fraud prosecution revolving fund may
be appropriated to the attorney general, or to any county or district attorney who has successfully
prosecuted an action for a violation of this act and been awarded such costs of prosecution, in
order to defray the costs of the attorney general and any such county or district attorney in
connection with their duties provided by this act. No moneys shall be paid into the medicaid
fraud prosecution revolving fund pursuant to this section unless the attorney general or
appropriate county or district attorney has commenced a prosecution pursuant to this section, and
the court finds in its discretion that payment of attorney fees and investigative costs is
appropriate under all the circumstances, and the attorney general, or county or district attorney
has proven to the court that the expenses were reasonable and necessary to the investigation and
prosecution of such case, and the court approves such expenses as being reasonable and
necessary.

(a) Failure to register an aircraft is knowingly possessing an aircraft that is not registered
in accordance with the regulations of the federal aviation administration contained in title 14,
chapter 1, parts 47-49 of the code of federal regulations.

(b) Failure to register an aircraft is a severity level 8, nonperson felony.

(c) The provisions of this section do not apply to any aircraft registration or information
supplied by a governmental entity in the course and scope of performing its lawful duties.

(a) Fraudulent aircraft registration is: (1) Presence, possession or operation of any aircraft
in this state that is found to be registered to a nonexistent person, firm, business or corporation or
to a firm, business or corporation which is no longer a legal entity is in violation of this section.
Any firm, business or corporation that has no physical location or corporate officers or that has
lapsed into an inactive state or been dissolved by order of the secretary of state for a period of at
least 90 days with no documented attempt to reinstate the firm, business or corporation or to
register its aircraft in the name of a real person or legal entity in accordance with federal aviation
administration regulations;

(2) knowingly supplying false information by any person to a governmental entity in
regard to the name, address, business name or business address of the owner of an aircraft in or
operated in the state; and

(3) knowingly supplying false information by any person, firm, business or corporation to
any governmental entity in regard to ownership by such person, firm, business or corporation or
another firm, business or corporation of an aircraft in or operated in this state if it is determined
that such firm, business or corporation:

(A) Is not, or has never been, a legal entity in this state;

(B) is not, or has never been, a legal entity in any other state; or

(C) has lapsed into a state of no longer being a legal entity in this state, and no
documented attempt has been made to correct such information with the governmental entity for
a period of 90 days after the date on which such lapse took effect with the secretary of state.

(1) Buying, receiving, disposing of, distributing, concealing, operating, or having in
possession or attempting to buy, receive, dispose of, distribute, conceal, operate, or possess, by
any person, firm, business or corporation of any aircraft or part thereof on which the
identification numbers do not meet the requirements of the federal aviation regulations; or

(2) possessing, manufacturing, or distributing any counterfeit manufacturer’s aircraft
identification number plate or decal used for the purpose of identification of any aircraft or
authorizing, directing, aiding in exchange or giving away any such counterfeit manufacturer’s
aircraft identification number plate or decal.

(c) The failure to have aircraft identification numbers clearly displayed on the aircraft and
in compliance with federal aviation regulations is probable cause for any law enforcement officer
in this state to make further inspection of the aircraft in question to ascertain its true identity. A
law enforcement officer is authorized to inspect an aircraft for identification numbers:

(1) When it is located on public property;

(2) upon consent of the owner of the private property on which the aircraft is stored; or

(a) Failure to report the disappearance of a child is knowingly failing to report to a law
enforcement officer, law enforcement agency or state investigative agency, as soon as practically
possible, the disappearance of a child under the age of 13 by a parent, legal guardian or caretaker
when:

(1) Such person knows or reasonably should know that such child has been missing, with
the intent to conceal the commission of a crime, other than a violation of this subsection; or

(2) such person knows that such child is missing and has reason to believe that such child
is in imminent danger of death or great bodily harm.

(b) (1) Failure to report the death of a child is knowingly failing to promptly report the
death of a child to a law enforcement officer, law enforcement agency or state investigative
agency, with the intent to conceal the commission of a crime, other than a violation of this
subsection, by a:

(A) Parent, legal guardian or caretaker; or

(B) person required to make a report as provided in subsection (a) of K.S.A. 38-2223, and
amendments thereto, unless such person is a parent, legal guardian or caretaker.

(2) The provisions of this subsection shall not apply when the child’s death has been
reported by another person or is otherwise known by a law enforcement officer, law enforcement
agency or state investigative agency.

(c) (1) Failure to report the disappearance of a child is a severity level 8, nonperson
felony.

(2) Failure to report the death of a child as defined in:

(A) Subsection (b)(1)(A) is a severity level 8, nonperson felony; and

(B) subsection (b)(1)(B) is a class B nonperson misdemeanor.

(d) As used in this section, "caretaker" means a person 16 years of age or older that had
willfully assumed responsibility for the care of a child at the time of the child’s disappearance or
death.